This paper describes the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery service for widearea distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows ...
David L. Oppenheimer, Jeannie R. Albrecht, David A...
Smart homes for the aging population have recently started attracting the attention of the research community. One of the problems of interest is this of monitoring the activities...
Jing Huang, Xiaodan Zhuang, Vit Libal, Gerasimos P...
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
Point&Connect (P&C) offers an intuitive and resilient device pairing solution on standard mobile phones. Its operation follows the simple sequence of point-and-connect: wh...
Technical support procedures are typically very complex. Users often have trouble following printed instructions describing how to perform these procedures, and these instructions...
Tessa A. Lau, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Castel...